At least three survivors have been found at the crash site of a Boeing passenger plane that crashed in Cuba on May 18. This is reported by the newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba Granma. According to the publication, they are in critical condition and sent to the hospital. A passenger Boeing-737 carrying 113 people, including 104 passengers, crashed on May 18 at Jose Marti Airport in Havana shortly after takeoff. Information about the possible causes of the crash is not yet available.

A gastroenterologist explains Russia's convoluted pharmaceutical market, as federal officials adopt new ‘counter-sanctions’ Vladimir Smirnov / TASS / Scanpix / LETA This week, Russian lawmakers adopted a first and second reading of legislation allowing the government to impose sweeping new “counter-sanctions” on hostile foreign states. The bill brings Moscow a step closer to banning the import of a whole series of vital medicines.

Dominic Lipinski / Pa / AP / Scanpix / Leta Prince Harry and Meghan Markle after the engagement announcement, November 2017 On May 19, the wedding of Prince Harry Wales and American actress Meghan Markle should take place in Windsor. The ceremony will be held in the chapel of St. George at the Windsor castle - the favorite residence of Queen Elizabeth II.

Adalberto Roque / AFP / Scanpix / Leta in a cube shortly after departure from Gavana airport Boeing 737 Cubana de Aviación airline. On board there were 104 passengers. The aircraft operated an internal flight to the city of Olgin.

In Cuba, shortly after taking off from Gavana airport, the Boeing-737 aircraft crashed. 113 people were on board, reports El Pais with reference to AFP. 104 of them were passengers, writes the Granma newspaper. The abstract was executing an internal flight to the city of Olgin. The plane flew out of Jose Marty Airport at 12:08 local time (19:08 in Moscow) and during the take-off fell between the airport and the village of Santiago de Las Vegas, writes Granma.

Parliament of the Chechen Republic Deputies of the Chechnya parliament proposed changing the Russian Constitution and allowing the head of state to occupy this position not two, but three in a row. The corresponding bill has been submitted to the State Duma, but so far no one has commented on it. Medusa recalls the previous attempt by Chechen parliamentarians to get rid of this restriction of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Police found several explosive devices at and nearby the school in Santa Fe where the May 18 shooting took place. This is reported by CNN with reference to a police representative. The Associated Press describes the finds as "possible explosive devices." On May 18, a shooting occurred at a school in the Texas city of Santa Fe, as a result of which ten people were killed - nine students and a teacher. Ten more people were injured. Two people have been arrested in connection with the incident.

Vladislav Kungurov, the creator of the genre of quatrains-pies, has died. This was reported in the Pirozhki + community on VKontakte. Kungurov was 46 years old. The cause of his death was not reported. Patty is a poetic genre that first appeared in 2003. It is mainly distributed on the Internet. Pirozhok is a quatrain without rhyme, written in iambic tetrameter, often with an absurd illogical end. When publishing patties, capital letters and punctuation marks are traditionally not used.

Blogger Ilya Varlamov announced that he would not participate in the Moscow mayoral elections in 2018.

May 18. The new government of Medvedev and the fifth term of Putin Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin declared the composition of the new government. There is no longer the Ministry of Open Government in the office, but there is a Ministry of Education.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich was elected co-chairman of the board of the Skolkovo Foundation. The seat remained vacant after former Intel president Craig Barrett left the fund at the end of 2017. According to the charter of the foundation, its board is headed by two co-chairs on a voluntary basis. The second is businessman Viktor Vekselberg, who also holds the post of president of the fund.

Ukrainian director Serhiy Loznitsa received the Best Director award for the film "Donbass" in the "Un Certain Regard" program of the Cannes Film Festival. The film is dedicated to the life of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. Film critic Anton Dolin, in his review of Meduza, called Donbass "a distinctly anti-war film." The best film of the section was "The Border" by the Swedish director of Iranian origin Ali Abbasi. Anton Dolin also wrote in detail about this film.

Journalist and writer Zachary Zwiesen managed to secure a section of the road in GTA V, preventing many of the accidents that used to regularly occur on this section. To do this, Zwiesen had to steal a police car. GTA V online players have long pointed out that computer-controlled virtual drivers don't drive very well at all. But one of the turns on the Buen Vino Road northwest of Los Santos turned out to be “cursed” - accidents occurred especially often on it.

Evgeniya Novozhenina / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA On May 15, a demolition crew went to work on the charred wreckage of the “Winter Cherry” shopping center in Kemerovo, where 60 people (including 40 children) died in a fire on March 25. Following this tragedy, Russian fire safety officials launched unplanned inspections of shopping malls across the country.

In Tatarstan, a court arrested a traffic police officer and a businessman who are suspected of kidnapping and beating a person with a disability. According to investigators, early in the morning on April 28 in the city of Buinsk, policeman Radik Shakirov and his friend Ramil Khasanzyanov, being drunk, stopped Islam Davletshin near a nightclub. It seemed to them that his gait was "provocative"; according to Evening Kazan, they considered that he was pretending to be a “thieves”.